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Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972. Edmund Wilson letters and postcard, 1927-1961.

Title: Edmund Wilson letters and postcard, 1927-1961.

The collection consists of ten items, including: three letters to Rolfe Humphries, 1927-1943, about Humphries' writing; postal card to Mrs. W.E. Woodrow, 9 Feb. 1942, thanking her for her note on his book, with mention of Kipling; two letters to Mr. Rubin, 1960-1961, commenting on De Forest's work; carbon copies of three letters from Joseph Jay Rubin to Wilson, 1960-1963, commenting on publishing J.W. De Forest's works; letter to Mr. Schwerin, 19 July 1960, about the propsects of a film about one of his works.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60525784 View

United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Selected endorsements, letters, and monthly reports from Greenville, South Carolina, 1866-1867 (inclusive), [microform].

Title: Selected endorsements, letters, and monthly reports from Greenville, South Carolina, 1866-1867 (inclusive), [microform].

Selected endorsements, letters, and monthly reports of J. W. DeForest, an official with the Freedmen's Bureau in Greenville, South Carolina.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122549650 View

Howells family papers, 1850-1954 (inclusive).

Title: Howells family papers, 1850-1954 (inclusive).

Correspondence, compositions, and diaries of American novelist William Dean Howells as well as papers of his wife and children.

ArchivalResource: 52 boxes, 2 volumes, 2 portfolio boxes (26 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01480/catalog View

Thomas Bailey Aldrich papers, 1837-1926.

Title: Thomas Bailey Aldrich papers, 1837-1926.

Correspondence and other papers of the American writer Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

ArchivalResource: 19 boxes (7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00327/catalog View

De Forest, John William, 1826-1906. Autograph letter signed : New Haven, Conn., to the Reverend E.F. Strickland in Des Moines, Iowa, 1890 Aug. 19.

Title: Autograph letter signed : New Haven, Conn., to the Reverend E.F. Strickland in Des Moines, Iowa, 1890 Aug. 19.

Sending his autograph and his copy of a quatrain of the Fitzgerald translation of Omar Khayyam.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270526062 View

De Forest, John William, 1826-1906. J.W. De Forest novels, 1872-1876.

Title: J.W. De Forest novels, 1872-1876.

The collection contains a photostat of De Forest's novel of political corruption in the Gilded Age, Playing the mischief (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1876) with hand corrected changes for a 1904 edition; positive and negative photostats of each of the first pages of the serialized, illustrated novel published in Frank Leslie's Chimney corner (24 and 28 November, and 5 December 1874); and an unbound 1875 edition with pencilled corrections and notes in red pencil to the typesetter. Also, contains galley proofs (incomplete; 26 sheets, to chapter 9) for his novel set in the antebellum South, Kate Beaumont, with corrections in red and blue; and a photostat of a corrected copy, both typeset and manuscript (incomplete; pages 1-164, to chapter 39).

ArchivalResource: .91 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52075171 View

Sancton, Thomas. John W. De Forest's conversion, by Albert Burbank [pseud.]

Title: John W. De Forest's conversion, by Albert Burbank [pseud.]

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77061203 View

De Forest, John William, 1826-1906. Papers of John William DeForest [manuscript], 1855-1887.

Title: Papers of John William DeForest [manuscript], 1855-1887.

The papers contain a manuscript of a short poem beginning "You ask a thought . . . " Letters, 1855-56, to publishers Dix and Edwards discuss the publication and format of "Oriental acquaintance" and send a receipt for "Experiences in Mount Lebanon." A letter, 1876, to Mrs. [Johnson T.?] Platt doubts that Frances Burney was only sixteen when she wrote "Evelina" and gives his opinion on the intellectual maturation of women novelists. One of DeForest's calling cards is included.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647806466 View

James Russell Lowell papers, 1835-1919.

Title: James Russell Lowell papers, 1835-1919.

Papers of American author, poet, editor, teacher, and diplomat James Russell Lowell.

ArchivalResource: 17 boxes (8 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00365/catalog View

Orr Family Papers, 1828-1957 (bulk: 1843-1900)

Title: Orr Family Papers, 1828-1957 (bulk: 1843-1900)

Correspondence, land grant, indentures, engravings, writings, and scrapbooks

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft. (7 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50481814 View